Motion Pictures

Motion Pictures is a PDP presentation that explores how film and video serve as
natural collaborative medium for dance, highlighting the power of image and
motion in both. Over the years Motion Pictures has featured experimental and
innovative shorts, documentaries, “moc”umentaries and animations. There have
been documentaries about Pina Bausch, Maya Deren, Carmen Amaya, Geoffrey Holder
and Carmen DeLavallade Mark Morris and the Paris Opera Ballet along with
imaginative ground breaking work by Pooh Kaye, Hilary Harris and Lloyd Newson
among many others.

Now in its 10th year, Philadelphia Dance Projects’ Motion Pictures has become a mini-festival, unique to Philadelphia, that explores how film and video serve as natural collaborative medium for dance by highlighting the power of image in motion. Motion Pictures is co-curated by Gretjen Clausing, Executive Director Philly CAM and Terry Fox, PDP Executive Director.

Motion Picures 2011 will feature four different programs of shorts, features, and an “informance” artist/audience conversation with Filmmaker Nadine Patterson

The Annual Shorts Program will feature clever, poetic, and animated dance
videos from around the world. The program will preview
Everywhere,
an online video project by Philadelphia-based choreographer Kate Watson-Wallace and award-winning shorts from the Dance
On Camera Festival 2010 at Lincoln Center in New York.

Now in its 9th year, Motion Picturesexplores
how film and video serve as a natural collaborative medium for dance,
highlighting the power of image and motion in both. The festival features
experimental and innovative shorts, documentaries, “moc”umentaries, and animations.

The dance film series Motion Pictures, which in previous
years has been presented by Philadelphia Dance Projects as a stand-alone
series, will now be offered in conjunction with PDP Presents. Motion Pictures will feature a special screening of Beyond
the Mainstream, the rarely seen PBSGreat Performances: Dance in America series featuring postmodern,
avant-garde dancers from 1980.